Loyalist Community Council

A view on the Loyalist Community Council by one of their Victims…

Soapbox on October 19, 2015, 10:59 am

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Last week marked the 21st Anniversary of the Ceasefire declared by the Combined Loyalist Military Command. It was heralded as an end to decades of Loyalist violence. Earlier that year I met a handful of their colleagues who entered my home one evening and proceeded to empty the contents of a sub-machine gun into my body: all because I was a defenceless ‘innocent’ Taig. I emphasise the word innocent because that was the point: the more innocent and defenceless the …

Nationalist reps offer sceptical welcome for new Loyalist Community Council

David McCann on October 13, 2015, 4:39 pm

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Responses to the new Loyalist Community Council came in quickly from both the SDLP and Sinn Fein. There is a general consistency between both parties as they initially welcomed the approach towards democracy and peace but sceptical about some of the aims. First up the SDLP’s Claire Hanna (bits in bold added by me to emphasis areas of concern); Any genuine attempt to move paramilitary gangs away from violence is to be cautiously welcomed but there is something worrying about formalising and co-opting these organisations in order …